I got Amphetadesk working by sending the Perl libs it couldn't find to the apt bot on #debian and installing the packages it said. Only worked for 0.91 thou. At least I know that my RSS feed works.

TBL (not, Tim Berners Lee, another one - who is, I think, the smartest person I've ever met) recommended The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs a while back. Well, I found it online (legally) today, via this page. Reading it on my laptop now.